With
still greater pain and indignation do I learn that your name has
become in a few short days a byword, that you have discarded the
weapon of false, insidious arguments against my class - the class
to which you owe everything - for the sword of the assassin. It
has come to my knowledge that you have an assignation to-morrow
with my good friend M. de La Tour d'Azyr. A gentleman of his
station is under certain obligations imposed upon him by his birth,
which do not permit him to draw back from an engagement. But you
labour under no such disadvantages. For a man of your class to
refuse an engagement of honour, or to neglect it when made, entails
no sacrifice. Your peers will probably be of the opinion that you
display a commendable prudence. Therefore I beg you, indeed, did
I think that I still exercise over you any such authority as the
favours you have received from me should entitle me to exercise, I
would command you, to allow this matter to go no farther, and to
refrain from rendering yourself to your assignation to-morrow
morning.
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